A biography for Harry Dean Stantonhasn’t been written yet.
“I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.”
“My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue Heaven,' which I began singing when I was a year and a half.”
“My favorite films are 'Paris, Texas' and 'Repo Man.'”
“I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.”
“I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.”
“I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.”
“I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.”
“I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.”
“I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.”
“I have a good ear for languages.”
“I was in a movie called 'Twister,' and in it, I had to hit a golf ball off of a roof with a driving wood. The guy who owned the place where we shot showed me how to do it, and I hit the ball about 150 yards.”
“The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'”
“I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.”
“I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
“I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.”
“I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.”
“I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.”
“I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.”
“There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.”
“Nothing is important.”